Improvement in combined knives and tape-lines



G. S. HASTINGS Gumhined Knife and Tape Line.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GLOVER S. HASTINGS, OF UNIONVILLE, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, FRANK S.JOHNSON, AND WILLIS J. HEMINGWAY, OF PLAINVILLE, CONN.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED KNIVES AND T APE-LINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 166,099, dated July 27,1875; application filed June 8, 1875.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, GLoVER S. HASTINGS, of Unionville, Hartford county,Connecticut, have invented a Combined Pocket-Knife and Tape-Measure, ofwhich the following is a specification The object of my invention is toso construct the handle of a pocket-knife that it may be made availableas a casing for containing a tape-measure without interfering with itsduties as a knife-handle, and this object I-attain in the manner which 1will now proceed to describe, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawing, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of a pocketknife withmy improvement, and Fig. 2 a side View, partly in section.

A circular chamber is formed at the rear end of the handle, partly by aring, a, and

partly by continuations b of the cheek-pieces B of the said handle, thering being confined continuations b of the said cheek-pieces of the Vhandle, all substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

GLOVER S. HASTINGS.

Witnesses:

J. D. 000K, L. H. HART.

